Skinner’s Boston sale of ‘American Furniture and Decorative Arts’ on 1 March 2015 features a highly important example of early American needlework that is expected to sell for a sum in the region of $1million.
The Burrell Collection’s Wagner garden carpet is one of 50 highlights from the esteemed Glasgow collection on show at Bonhams New Bond Street showrooms, London, 15 December 2014 – 9 January 2015.
Marylebone, in Central London, might seem an unlikely place for an exhibition of Greek costume, but it is the home of the Hellenic Centre, a focus for philhellenes and London’s Greek community. There could be found a rare opportunity to see an impressive range of Greek dress outside its native land.
The British Museum’s blockbuster Spring 2014 exhibition, Vikings: Life and Legend 6 March – 22 June 2014 explores warfare and cultural identity amongst the often violent, raider and trader warrior race.
After an absence for restoration of almost two years, ‘The Lady and the Unicorn’ tapestries have gone back on view at the Musée National du Moyen Age, Cluny, Paris.
Last chance to see Ecclesiastical Textiles at Waddesdon Manor on till 27 October 2013. The textiles, dating from c 1400 to the late 1700s, were acquired by several members of the family.
William Morris once described the Cotswolds, a range of hills in southwestern and west-central England, as “a heaven on earth”, therefore, the Gordon Russell Design Museum, in Worcestershire, seems like a perfect place to hold a textile exhibition, which includes some of Morris’ work
Last chance to see “Workt by Hand”: Hidden Labor and Historical Quilts”, on show in the Brooklyn Museum of Art till 15 September 2013.
Until Tuesday, December 10, 2013, an installation at the Cleveland Museum of Art presents some 15 sumptuous Italian silks, velvets, and altar frontals of the 14th and 15th centuries from the CMA’s world-class collection.
An inspirational exhibition at the Queensland Art Gallery in Brisbane, Australia, until 22 September 2013, features over 200 years of British quilt-making.
